Technology Testbed Flight Supports Exploration
Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
NASA's open-ended technology-development program has logged its first major flight test, sending an inflatable heat shield through a suborbital parabola that subjected it to 1,000F temperatures as it plunged back into the atmosphere. The flight of the third Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment...
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